Bill ‘will improve DPS efficiency’
The Government says it is making moves to 'improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the Drug Payments Scheme'. Gary Culliton reports. … [Read more]
Suggested COPD Algorithm
Adapted from the presentation ‘COPD – Where are we now?’, which took place at the Frontiers in Respiratory Medicine meeting, October 21st, 2011. MIMS Ireland Copyright® … [Read more]
February events
8 Wednesday Blackrock Clinic Post Graduate Education for GPs. Time: Supper from 7pm. Meeting at 8pm sharp. Venue: Stillorgan Park Hotel, Stillorgan, Co Dublin. Standards, Guidelines And Business Practice – What We Need to Know? Topics: ‘National Standards For Safer Better Healthcare — What They Mean For GPs’, Dr Deirdre Mulholland, Head of … [Read more]
Studies in the school of hard knocks
Dr Patrick Rowan reviews a limited-edition book that chronicles one doctor's working life in adverse social and medical conditions. … [Read more]
News
Recruits advised to ‘go home’
By Lloyd Mudiwa. The Asian doctors who failed December’s clinical examinations for registration to the Supervised Division should return to their home countries, the HSE has advised.
Sign-off to be referred under Croke Park deal
By Gary Culliton. The “timely completion” of private patient claim forms is among the issues the Minister for Health wishes to see addressed under the Croke Park Agreement, among measures aimed at boosting “efficiencies, productivity increases and reform”.
Map indicates ‘black spots’ in healthcare
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Casualty patients in rural Kerry, north Mayo, west Clare and southwest Donegal were more than an hour’s drive from a hospital emergency department (ED), a new mapping tool has shown.
Theatre initiative could save €100m
By Gary Culliton. The Productive Theatre Initiative could save another €100 million if it were transposed across the health system, the Minister for Health has suggested.
Minister must approve medical specialty status
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Approval for the recognition of medical disciplines as specialties is subject to consent from the Minister for Health, the Medical Council has said.
Health delivery model ‘requires further work’
By Lloyd Mudiwa. The HSE has indicated that a proposal by St James’s Hospital, Dublin, to deliver a new health model based on the recognition that purely increasing capacity was not the ‘best-fit’ solution to growing demand for services required further work.
Parents and GPs fail on obesity
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Parents are poor at recognising their children’s weight problems, yet GPs, who are ideally placed for a pivotal early intervention role, are failing to act, a new study shows.
HSE reports balanced 2011 Vote
By Lloyd Mudiwa. The HSE is reporting a balanced vote at year-end to December 30, having received a Supplementary Estimate in December of €148 million.
Fertility clinic is licensed for embryo vitrification process
By Mary Anne Kenny. Merrion Fertility Clinic (MFC) has announced an amendment to its Irish Medicines Board licence to allow for the vitrification process to be used to cryopreserve embryos and blastocyst-stage embryos. MFC is the first Irish clinic to have been approved to hold such a licence.
Anaesthetists’ Annual Open Meeting and Seminar
Irish Orthopaedic Anaesthetic Association Meeting
IPHA Annual Conference
BMJ Masterclass for General Practitioners
RCPI Public Health Winter Scientific Meeting
Clinical Times
Vitamin D supplements are advised with steroids
Most patients taking steroids have suboptimal vitamin D levels and should take supplements to prevent drug-induced osteoporosis, experts have advised.
Dental issues are common with port wine stains
Patients with facial port wine stains (PWS) are at an increased risk of dental complications, particularly gingival staining, a study has confirmed.
Newborn infants face doubled risk with SSRIs
Infants born to mothers who take SSRIs during face more than twice the risk of pulmonary hypertension compared with unexposed infants, research has found.
Evidence links IBD development to colder weather
New research has identified a link between warmer climates and lower incidences of Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).
Opinion
Never too late to say ‘I don’t’
With news of a 99-year-old Italian filing for divorce, Dr Muiris Houston wonders why couples in their later years are increasingly calling it a day.
Can you tell me how to get to 2013
Dara Gantly looks at the likelihood the HSE will achieve the ambitious targets outlined in its Service Plan for 2012.
Case has impact for medical experts
Ed Madden, BL, on a case were separate hearings into liability and quantum were ordered in a matter were the plaintiff sued for damages for injury allegedly suffered as a result of an RTA.
Criticism of the judicial system is a great concern
Dear Editor, In response to Ambassador Dr Omar Al-Hassan’s letter to you (IMT, January 13, 2012, http://bit.ly/wKawzG) criticising my analysis of events in Bahrain in The Irish Times (November 29, 2011) and in your newspaper (December 9, http://bit.ly/rqXZec), I am heartened to learn that the King who “courageously” ordered the establishment of the Bahrain Independent [...]
Viscera blog
A bunch of muppets
By Pat Kelly. A TV station in Cleveland, US, is using puppets to get around the ban on cameras in the courtroom.
Trying to keep a lid on toilet phobia
By Pat Kelly. The National Phobics Society (NPS) in the UK has launched a self-help book and DVD to tackle the growing problem of toilet phobia.
Gaming without guilt
By Pat Kelly. Video-gaming has taken on a more useful dimension after a group of players solved the structure of a protein that baffled scientists for more than 10 years.
RCPI Faculty of Occupational Medicine Symposium
MICGP Postgraduate Presentation Ceremony 2011
Managing Chronic Disease in Primary Care
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